Bush's Budget Pumps Up Health Care

OTHER NEWS TO NOTE - WASHINGTON

December 9, 1991

Early drafts of the federal budget President Bush will propose to Congress next year show the administration wants to pump more money into a variety of preventive health services. Increases would be proposed for immunization services, cancer screening grants, smoking cessation programs, community health centers and infant mortality programs, among others, according to budget documents obtained by The Associated Press. The budget documents, which are the White House Office of Management and Budget's response to a Health and Human Services Department budget proposed by Secretary Louis Sullivan, do not say how the increases would be funded. Bush is expected to address health care, possibly unveiling a package of reforms, in his State of the Union message in late January or early February.